Alton Brown's Flower Pot Smoker

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Anyone here try this yet?

Flower Pot Smokers

Inspiration: Good Eats (Alton Brown) "Q" episode:

http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Season7/Q/QTrans.htm

Links to fans who tried to duplicate Alton Brown's terra cotta smoker:

http://homepage.mac.com/dubmann/PhotoAlbum1.html

http://www.chicagofoodies.com/2005/06/flower_pot_cera.html

http://www.visualrecipes.com/recipe-details/recipe_id/162/How-To-Slow-Cook-and-Smoke-Pork/

http://www.bbqsource-forums.com/invboard/index.php?showtopic=114

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/06/condoq_diy_smoker.html

http://twothirds.org/2005/09/smoking-pot-cheap-terracotta-flower.html

http://www.ntscblog.com/2005/07/little-brown-egg-i-condo-q.html

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17857773/

http://bbq.about.com/b/a/035246.htm

http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?t=217722

http://forums.pimprig.com/pcapex_daily_disturbance/43619-flower_pot_smoker_modded_of_course.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/my_recipe_box/review/0,1973,FOOD_9919_23019,00.html

http://www.amazon.com/ABs-Good-Eats-Terra-Cotta-Flower-Pot-Smoker/lm/1BNKOHFC2URYM

(bluenamer.. please post some pics from the links above.. thanks)

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I thought about it but when I went around looking for giant flower pots and other equipment it wound up costing more than a dedicated bullet style smoker and almost as much as an offset.  Plus those two won't possibly be obliterated if I happen to drop my tongs hard on them.  So unless you just happen to have the stuff on hand it's easier imo to just buy a cheap smoker instead of making a cheap smoker. 

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I'm buying a BGE very soon, but if I were to do this type of project, it wouldn't not be for the price. It would be more for the "neato look what I can do" factor. I'd be gettin my MacGyver groove on.

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Never saw that episode.

Thanks for the post and all the links.

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other homemade smokers:

http://homepage.mac.com/ravnhaus/BBQ/pits2.html